Will Bulgaria Have a Stable Government After Yet Another Election in June? Our Readers Have Spoken
On our Facebook page, readers were asked about Bulgaria's stability after the June elections
Five parties will certainly have seats in next Bulgarian parliament, shows a Gallup poll, ordered by the bTV national channel.
The survey took place between September 27 and 30, among more than 1000 adult Bulgarian citizens.
According to the data, the centre-right GERB would get 33.9% of the votes, followed by the Bulgarian Socialist Party (BSP) with 18.9% and the Movement for Rights and Freedoms (DPS) with 15.1%. Next is the party of the TV host-turned-politician Nikolai Barekov Bulgaria Without Censorship with 5.9% and the centre-right Reformist Bloc with 5.7%.
Very close to the 4% threshold are three parties – the nationalist Patriotic Front with 4.4%, the nationalist Ataka with 4% and the party of former Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov – ABV with 3.8%.
At the same time 55% of the respondents in the poll said they did not believe that elections will change anything.
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